How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN
Published on 6. December 2012
XVI, 216 pages
978-3-642-49224-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this book the author has collected a number of his
important works and added an extensive commentary relating
his ideas to those of other prominentnames in the
consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a
convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous
way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent
works. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-brain
interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of
neurotransmitters.
John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has
numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to
neurophysiology.
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In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominent names in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist 'doctrines' of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt, co-authored by the quantum physicist F. Beck, to explain the mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology. Contents: The Problem.- Dualist-Interactionism - My story.- Commentaries on the Mind-Brain Problem.- New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How mental events could influence neural events.- Do mental events cause neural events analogously to the probability fields of quantum mechanics?- A unitary hypothesis of mind-brain interaction in the cerebral cortex.- Evolution of Consciousness.- Evolution of complexity of the brain with the emergence of consciousness.- Quantum Aspects of Brain Activity and the Role of Consciousness.- The Self and its Brain: The Ultimate Synthesis.
